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Re:The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:06PM (#48272516)
Creem is just a MoR layer on top of Stripe. Not really an EU alternative.
Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:15AM (#46255093)
ha good luck. they already aggressively scan and use public wi-fi networks and have everything shipped on a chonky SoC
Re:iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:25PM (#46235966)
it's kinda bleak realizing I've been running the same cursed workflow for way too long. brb gonna disable that autocomplete
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:07AM (#45966192)
Porkbun also uses Cloudflare for their NS servers.
Re:Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and... on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @07:54PM (#45269858)
>A warning to auth engineers: if an account is using a Gmail address, then auth codes from Google Authenticator should not be considered a second factor.

Incredible take. I don't know what's worse here — suggesting gmail address = google authenticator, thinking you can know the source of "auth codes", or the fact this is coming from an auth engineer. I'm switching to handwritten HMACs on paper napkins today.

Re:Why Koreans ask what year you were born on Thursday June 12, 2025 @05:09AM (#44255530)
Nowadays it seems more of a coping mechanism for fading relevance rather than respecting the actual competence.
Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device on Thursday June 05, 2025 @09:00AM (#44191281)
IMO, PM2.5 sensors are essential nowadays. What's the point of a device without one? Especially for $229. I can get a chinese thingy like qingping for ~$115 with PM2.5 and other stuff.
Re:Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @04:58AM (#43982413)
They will happily oblige and put your review down if the host asks nicely. Happened to me, happened to my friends. Also they don’t care a bit about fake obvious reviews. Not like “not actively monitoring”, like telling you idk if you care to report it.
Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:51AM (#43970203)
Sure, but the shorting happened in 2022, when Musk wasn't clowning nearly as hard as now. Unless Gates has a time machine, this argument doesn't really stick.
Re:DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond... on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:46AM (#43970174)
>DNS is fundamentally broken

Is it? Seems to be working as intended. Don't like a specific resolver? Cool, switch to another. Or run your own.

The problem is entities like Cloudflare trying to centralize the internet, DNS included, not the protocol itself.

Re:Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previous... on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:46AM (#43969905)
>ultimate

Who knows? Maybe when and if that happens, civilizations will be advanced enough to try to reverse this: manipulating the local Higgs field, pocket universes, and counter-decay waves

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:05PM (#43927548)
It's hard to take him seriously or consider him a good guy. While advocating for the environment, he doesn't hesitate to short tesla, an EV company (questionable nature aside).

There are two possible reasons for this (the 'why' remains -- not enough money?):

- He's admitting he doesn't care about the environmental mission, just the returns

- He thinks tesla is a fraud, but isn't saying it publicly

Either way, it's sus, so it's tough to trust him.

Re:Accents in Latent Spaces: How AI Hears Accent Strength in English on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:36AM (#43912835)
Agreed, pretty meh. Tried my usual accent (the one where natives mostly can’t tell where I'm from) — got 78%. Then went full cartoon russian ‘bad neighborhood’ mode — somehow scored 68%.
Re:Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 2... on Sunday May 04, 2025 @10:55PM (#43891574)
> you might get dangerous X-ray and gamma ray emissions from its accretion disc

There’s not enough matter nearby to feed it enough to form an accretion disc

> we could send probes to orbit it

Hitting a cm-sized black hole orbit at a lunar distance sounds insanely hard, given it’s invisible (even with occasional lensing).

Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @11:33AM (#43333494)
1) There are a lot of bugs, for starters. I've been using it for many months but had to switch back to Chrome about a year ago due to some unbearable bugs like tabs freezing and sync kept bringing back long-gone tabs. Don't get me wrong, I've reported a dozen issues (I have 50+ started threads on orionfeedback forums), but anyway, I felt like I spent more time reporting bugs than actually doing my stuff. 2) Some needed extensions are broken. It's not like I need that many with weird APIs. Bitwarden has been broken for some time, and Grammarly is still broken (3 years in). I tried the latest version a few days ago given what's happening with chrome rn, there are some annoyances still. I like Orion (kudos to Kagi team for working on it) and want it to succeed, I believe it just needs more time, I guess.
Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:49PM (#43325170)
Hey there, nice shilling for brave. 1 thread, 4 comments!
Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:44PM (#43325080)
Yeah, ignore the crypto and tons of other stuff about phoning home or doing malicious 'oopsies' things.
Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:41PM (#43325039)
I love Kagi's Orion but it's still not good enough yet to switch off chrome completely. You realize this once you delve deeper, install extensions, and use it as your daily driver.
Re:Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for ... on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:04PM (#42904447)
You’d need to upgrade the account to a paid one (there will be no charges anyway if you stay within free limits of the ARM offer), which unlocks a different pool to spin up a server in.
Re:Kagi Translate on Friday November 08, 2024 @12:37AM (#42084464)
Mozilla is digging a grave for Firefox with its own hands, we need something else non-chromium, which Orion serves fine. I just wish they'd focus on fewer things as has already been mentioned, rather than producing many half-baked things.
Re:Show HN: Kafka? A free native Windows/macOS/Linux Kafka client and ... on Thursday October 24, 2024 @07:26AM (#41934446)
There are at least 10+ open source kafka UI tools out there, what does your i++ tool try to achieve? Especially, considering it's not open source. "Too complex" is a questionable point for the pros list of a kafka-related tool, to be honest.

I maintain one of these FOSS tools and based on users' feedback, one usually faces the issue of finding just _one_ tool with all the required features, rather than making one's experience less complex (?).

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024) on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:49AM (#41445025) 

  Location: UTC +3 - +8
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Kafka, SQL (various), AWS, k8s, TypeScript, React
  Résumé/CV: cv.haarolean.dev
  Email: [email protected]
Re:Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent on Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:51AM (#37942174)
You might wanna take a look at Orion browser by Kagi. Built on WebKit like Safari, but not open-source (yet, as they say). The interesting part is that it supports addons from both Chrome and FF.
Re:We manage 200 open-source repos on Saturday October 07, 2023 @10:46AM (#37802147)
As a maintainer I feel like the first tip is not the best approach sometimes. People tend to raise a lot of “I got a problem” issues (well, we all do sometimes) which they solve themselves in a short time (e.g. a misconfiguration). Responding instantly to such sounds inefficient.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023) on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @06:46AM (#37750119) 

  Location: UTC +8 atm, closer to EU in spring 2024
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: NA, EU
  Technologies: Java, Spring
  Résumé/CV: haarolean.dev/cv
  Email: [email protected]
A T-shaped engineer w/ 5+ years of experience in backend development. Passionate open sourcerer, as a maintainer and a contirbutor. Interested in technical and team leadership, DevRel, Developer Advocate and project management roles.
Re:WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:12AM (#37197441)
Sounds like worth it for an “irreparable loss”.

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